Show IN OF THRONG SIX KILLED AND FORTY FIVE IN BY INFERNAL MACHINE AT aan FRANCISCO explosion occurred during prepared nets ne parade blowing gap through crowd men women and children san francisco six persons persona were killed and forty four were injured by the explosion of a timed bomb at the corker corner of stewart and market streets saturday afternoon during the preparedness pa redness parade the deed Is generally attributed to a mind unbalanced by arguments tor for and against preparedness which have occupied attention here lately frank josephson a lodger in a sall bail ors boarding house has been arrested on suspicion when arrested he cried 1 I do it I 1 do it the bomb concealed in a suitcase packed with cartridges bullets gai gas pipe glass glasa and scrap iron blew a gap through the crowd blasting men women children dildred and babies the one story building against which the suitcase stood W wasa wrecked the holiday throng cheering a contingent of veterans vete of the first california infantry of the spanish amerl ameri can war became a shambles the blare of fifty bands and the roar of 0 drums drowned the cries of the iho injured two women standing beside me were blown to bits said one woman mrs kinsley van doom of oakland who with her two children was injured the police say it is possible that some bodies were blown out 04 ol 01 existence every possible precaution police officials official 0 said was taken but the innocent looking suli suitcase cise standing wh where I 1 a country visitor of whom there were thousands might have set it down at no attention I 1 the force of the bomb waa mas astonishing Hand Hands fuls of empty empey revolver and rifle shells blown through the crowd by the explosion wera were picked up in wo gutter by souvenir hunters A piece of lead pipe was blown two blocks into the northwestern pacific waiting room in the ferry building A womans comans gold watch presumably belonging to one of the victims was blown through the air and landed in a fruit stand a block and a halt half away through the violence the parade wended bended without a break the voter veter ans ana of the grand army uc he waiting in steuart street to tall into line escaped death by a hair and proceeded with the march an ambulance summoned to care for or a fainting spectator stood across the street when the explosion occurred the patient had his leg fractured and a mau man aiding the attendants tell fell with a fractured skull but the ambulance steward was uninjured he placed both men and some other victims in his ambulance and rushed them to a hospital all the newspaper offices in san francisco on friday received a communication muni cation written in roman scrip with an indelible pencil many of the words being heavily underscored warning them that things are going to happen but the warning was regarded as a hoax |